Statistics Research for Lawyers: Immigration and International Affairs

I.      Home
II.     Where to Start?
III.    Subject Specific Resources
        i.      Business & Economics
        ii.     Criminal Justice & Public Safety
        iii.    Education
        iv.    Health & Environment
        v.     History & Government Affairs
        vi.    Immigration & Int'l Affairs
        vii.   Labor & Employment
IV.    Visualizing Data

There are a lot of websites featuring data and statistics on countries around the world:

• Geohive: Provides world population statistics.
• IMF eLibrary: Provides data produced by the International Monetary Fund.
  • Snell Library has copies of works produced by the IMF
    • International Financial Statistics Yearbook, available at Snell Library Reference Stacks (HG61.I57)
    • Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook, available at Snell Library Reference Stacks (HF91.I65)
• NationMaster: Compare countries visually on a variety of different statistical measures.
• United Nations Population Information Network: Contains the population data collected by the United Nations.
• World Bank Open Data: Provides the development data collected by the World Bank.
• World Health Organization Data: Provides the data and statistics on world health collected by the World Health Organization.

For immigration data and statistics, please see:

• Immigration Data: Data on immigration provided by the Department of Homeland Security.
• TRAC: Immigration data from Syracuse University

For more information on this topic, please see these LibGuides produced by Snell Library:

• International Affairs
• Federal Government, International Affairs
• Social Science Statistics, International